Initially slated for 2025 at a cost of $200m, the Tarrkarri project is now $50m over budget and will be reviewed early next year
Work on Tarrkarri, slated as “the world’s leading First Nations cultural centre”, has been suspended amid cost blowouts.
The construction of Tarrkarri, which means “the future” in Kaurna, began in December 2021 in Adelaide, and it was due to open in 2025.
Continue reading...Another low pressure system is moving towards Victoria down the NSW coast, which is likely to bring rain to Gippsland
Daniel Andrews says there will be a flood update at 11.30am
Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, is at a school in Seaford in Melbourne’s south-east, announcing $1.6bn to upgrade schools and kindergartens. Before he goes into the details, he’s providing a short flood update.
It’s not expected that they will go higher than the peaks that were recorded during the beginning of this flood event. But it is an anxious time out there.
Continue reading...Nathaniel Drummond, 19, was competing in a race at South Australia’s Seacliff Beach when the large shark attacked his vessel
A teenager escaped unscathed after a “big shark” attacked his surf ski during a race at an Adelaide beach, tearing a hole in the vessel.
Nathaniel Drummond, 19, was competing in a surf ski race at Seacliff Beach in Adelaide’s south on Sunday when a shark, believed to be a great white, sent him flying into the water.
Continue reading...Kieren Perkins has backed diversity in sport at the national press club and Manasseh Sogavare, the PM of Solomon Islands, is due to arrive in Australia this afternoon on a flight from Singapore. Follow the day’s news live
Fire extinguished in Sydney shopping centre
Maria Kovacic elected NSW Liberals president
The election next March will be hard fought.
Our party will be talking directly to our community, including western Sydney and the regions, about how the Perrottet Government can improve their lives and help their families.
Chef Justin James combines native flavours and exotic botanics to create a 20-something-course menu
Adelaide’s Restaurant Botanic has won restaurant of the year at Gourmet Traveller’s annual awards night, which were announced in-person at a gala event on Tuesday, after being cancelled in 2020 and held online last year.
The restaurant, headed by chef Justin James and located in the middle of the South Australian capital’s botanic gardens, opened just 14 months ago after the gardens’ previous restaurant underwent a transformation. James uses plants from the surrounds, combining native flavours and more exotic botanics to create a 20-something-course menu that unfolds over at least four hours.
Continue reading...NSW and Victoria have dragged their heels and now risk the federal government taking over Australia’s most important river system
State governments which have dragged their heels on delivering on their commitments under the Murray-Darling Basin plan are now risking a federal government takeover of water policy after June 2024.
They must judge whether the federal water minister, Tanya Plibersek, will be prepared to reach for the cudgels that are built into the Murray-Darling Basin plan and take over administration of Australia’s most important river system.
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Continue reading...Failure infuriates other states and may force Tanya Plibersek to impose highly controversial buybacks
New South Wales will seek an exemption from its obligations to deliver the final stage of the Murray-Darling Basin plan, a move that could leave the environment short-changed millions of litres of water.
NSW will not meet a June 2024 deadline to deliver the last 25% of water savings of the plan, to be achieved through water-saving projects.
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Continue reading...Boyle took unprecedented step of invoking Australia’s whistleblower protections after exposing tax agency’s aggressive debt collecting practices in 2018
The South Australian courts have lifted suppression orders that would have stymied the media’s ability to report on a landmark case launched by tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle.
The decision, which follows an intervention by Guardian Australia, paves the way for media to more freely report on the first major test of Australia’s whistleblowing laws, which will likely have significant consequences for the protections available to others who speak out about government wrongdoing.
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Continue reading...Despite backlash from customers and calls for CEO Alan Joyce to resign, airline has ‘a lot of confidence’ for September school holidays
Qantas has vowed its operations will settle into a new post-Covid normal within weeks after months of customer complaints over flight cancellations and lost baggage.
The Qantas group executive of associated airlines and services, John Gissing, told the Centre for Aviation summit in Adelaide the airline had “a lot of confidence” going into the September school holidays.
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Continue reading...Bureau of Meteorology expects to issue further flood warnings as rain falls in already saturated areas
A massive rain band moving across the country towards the east coast is threatening to bring severe thunderstorms, flash flooding and gusty winds in the coming days.
Inland Queensland and northern New South Wales were expected to be hardest hit by thunderstorms, with flooding also likely.
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Continue reading...Dubbed a ‘great outdoor museum’, the fossil-rich region will be assessed by the World Heritage Centre, a process expected to take another two years
South Australia’s iconic and fossil-rich Flinders Ranges is one step closer to being declared one of Australia’s natural wonders on the Unesco World Heritage List.
The area has been nominated for a tentative listing as a world heritage site, on behalf of the South Australian government and the area’s traditional owners, the Adnyamathanha people.
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Continue reading...Albanese government awaits legal advice from solicitor general over former prime minister’s power grab. This blog is now closed
More on the governor general’s diaries, from AAP:
Governor general David Hurley’s diary makes no mention of the five times he handed extra ministerial powers to then-prime minister Scott Morrison.
Morrison took on the health, finance, treasury, home affairs, industry, science, energy and resources portfolios between March 2020 and May 2021.
The Governor General’s Program lists in detail the numerous activities of Mr Hurley, including phone calls, official events and luncheons.
Morrison was secretly appointed health minister on March 14, 2020, with the knowledge of then-health minister Greg Hunt.
Continue reading...Parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania are less likely to see wet weather heading into the warmer months
Australia may be about to experience a rare third La Niña this spring, but the outlook is sunnier – literally – for parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued an alert on Tuesday for above-average rainfall through to December for around two-thirds of the nation, including the east coast, due to a negative Indian Ocean dipole and warmer than average waters in Australia’s north.
Continue reading...Morrison issued a lengthy apology on Facebook after the former home affairs minister called his secret swearing-in to her portfolio ‘unacceptable’
The former prime minister Scott Morrison is appearing on 2GB after revelations he appointed himself to several ministries in secret while in government.
Morrison says his appointments to three cabinet roles were “safeguards” during “unprecedented” times.
All ministers know their direct powers are matter between the prime minister and them not the cabinet.
These were not issues that were subject to cabinet.
It is the secrecy that is astonishing and we must get an explanation from the former prime minister about his actions.
One could understand how the prime minister may have wished to ensure that there was a safety net, particularly around the role of the health minister. We had no vaccines for Covid at the time.
But the fact that he chose not to tell anyone about this, the fact that his cabinet – many members of his cabinet – didn’t know about this – the prime minister has a responsibility to inform the parliament, the public and to inform his cabinet. It is a most extraordinary and alarming set of circumstances, I believe.
Continue reading...The boys – aged eight and three – were taken to hospital with critical injuries after incident on North-South Motorway in South Australia
A woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her two children on a motorway in Adelaide, with police praising a man who intervened, stating his actions prevented a far worse outcome.
South Australian police claim the woman stopped her car on the North-South Motorway late on Monday night and removed her two young boys – aged eight and three – before allegedly stabbing them several times with a knife.
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Continue reading...Ed Husic pushes for ‘brain regain’
Industry minister Ed Husic will this week host a series of five roundtable meetings with science and technology leaders in the lead-up to the federal government’s jobs summit, in a bid to kickstart what he called “brain regain” – attracting Australia’s bright minds working overseas to return home, to combat the so-called “brain drain”.
These discussions will also include ways to increase the representation of women and people of diverse backgrounds in skilled occupations. One of my priorities is on “brain regain” – encouraging Australian researchers and innovators to return home. I am interested to hear ideas on how this can be best achieved.
I can’t emphasise strongly enough that this is the start of engagement with these industry sectors. After the jobs and skills summit I will continue the work with industry leaders to ensure we apply practical solutions to accelerate Australia’s pathway to high-skilled, high-value economy.
He’s applied for a job and that’s coming with a significant degree of scrutiny, as it should do. That’s part of the territory if you’re going to put yourself forward for those roles.
If he felt the need to protect the environment from offshore drilling for gas off Sydney’s northern beaches and he felt he needed to swear himself in as minister, that’s something I support.
Continue reading...Adelaide-based public servant blew the whistle on the use of garnishee notices to claw back debts from taxpayers
Commonwealth prosecutors are seeking suppression orders in the case of former tax office worker Richard Boyle.
Boyle blew the whistle in 2018 on the Australian Taxation Office’s aggressive use of garnishee notices to claw back debts from taxpayers and businesses.
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Continue reading...Breaking down the data: which demographic groups have suffered the most and the least
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Business Council calls Albanese government the most engaged she’s seen
Westacott, the council’s chief executive, told ABC Radio:
I can’t remember a more engaged government than this. I have had call after call after call from ministers.
When you add up all those little things it makes a big difference.
We need to rebrand Australia as a place we want people to come to work.
Continue reading...Cryptic clues about man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948 spawned theories of jilted lovers and cold war spies – but the truth may open up even more questions
A South Australian academic’s claims to have identified “Somerton man” as a 43-year-old electrical engineer from Melbourne could finally provide answers in one of Australia’s most infamous cold cases.
For 73 years, the identity of a well-dressed man found slumped by a sea wall of Somerton beach, south of Adelaide, in 1948 has been a mystery – leaving room for theories featuring jilted lovers and cold war spies.
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